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Citing high taxes and cost of living, more people are leaving New Jersey than almost any other state

Kristin Koennemann
Only In Your State
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC

Fewer residents might mean less traffic.

For the past five years, New Jersey has lost a larger percentage of its population than any other state. For the first time in half a decade, we rank number two on this list, with Illinois being the number one state facing a mass emigration. Still, over sixty percent of New Jersey moves in 2017 were residents moving out, not in. This isn't a great thing. It often means less tax revenue and decreased purchasing power, but it isn't all bad.

More than two million people left New Jersey between 2005 and 2014. That may mean two million less cars on the road. Rush hour can get pretty chaotic and we could all use a little less traffic. This photo was taken on the Garden State Parkway.

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Not a surprise: The mass exodus from Illinois continues

Brodie
97.9 KickFM
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

People move for a lot of reasons. Mostly job related, that's why I've moved around a lot. When I moved to Quincy in 2016, it was my fifth state in as many years. In 2011 I moved from Michigan (where I had moved to in '03 for college) to California, then to Kansas in 2012, back to Michigan for the summer of 2014, down to Missouri that fall, then finally here to Illinois to kick off 2016. Apparently I was the odd man out on moving TO Illinois, as Illinois has been high on the list of people leaving the state each year for the past four decades.

This according to the 41st Annual National Movers study from United Van Lines. The annual study tracks state-to-state migration of the previous year, and Illinois came in at number one for people leaving the state, ending the five year reign of New Jersey. Meanwhile the number one state for inbound moves? Oddly Vermont. Oddly because A) Really? Vermont? and B) The rest of the top 10 is dominated by the south and the west. I guess one should not underestimate the allure of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream.

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Greeks protest after 17% increase in refugee arrivals in April - once warm feelings turning sour as refugee crisis sees no end in sight

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 07 May 2018 17:58 UTC

Locals argue with riot police during a protest against the visit of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Less than a week after the Greek government sent additional police forces to reinforce its land border with Turkey as fears mount over a sharp rise in the number of refugees and migrants crossing the frontier, The Guardian reports that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced down protests from citizens Thursday upset over how he's handled April's 17% increase in the influx of migrants.

The Daily Caller's Audrey Conklin reports that the protests in Lesbos, Greece, represent a stark shift in attitude among a people once significantly more welcoming to migrants fleeing as part of a years-long refugee crisis.

Huge numbers of people seeking asylum are flooding into the country by bus and boat every week, and while an agreement between the EU and Turkey signed in 2016 states that illegal refugees are supposed to be sent to Turkey after crossing European borders, Greek camps are overcrowding and in bad shape. Experts estimate that as many as 500 refugees new people cross the island's borders each week.

Tapped out? Colorado eviction courts overwhelmed amid unfolding housing crisis

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Sat, 05 May 2018 19:15 UTC

It is official. Consumers in Colorado appear to be tapped out.

This comes at a time when the recovery is now tied for the second-longest economic expansion in American history. The stock market is near an all-time high, unemployment is the lowest in two decades, consumer confidence is beyond euphoric, and Trump tax cuts are stoking the best earnings quarter since 2011 - unleashing a record amount of corporate stock buybacks.

While a real economic recovery could be plausible this late in the business cycle, the unevenness of the recovery has left many residents in Colorado without a paddle. Accelerating real estate and rent prices across Colorado are squeezing residents out of their homes at an alarming pace.

According to ABC Denver 7, Denver metro area's skyrocketing cost of living, stagnate wage growth, and lack of affordable real estate has fueled an enormous housing crisis - overwhelming the state's eviction courts.

Comment: Colorado residents aren't alone in feeling the housing pinch, as high costs of living are forcing many to leave their home states:

Debate over appointing 'Bloody Gina' Haspel as CIA chief shows America's soul sickness

John Kiriakou
TruthDig
Tue, 08 May 2018 17:17 UTC

Editor's note: John Kiriakou is a former CIA counterterrorism officer. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his attempts to oppose the Bush administration's torture program.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will hold hearings Wednesday to decide if Gina Haspel should be the next CIA director. The vote in committee and on the floor of the Senate is going to be close. And if Haspel wins, we will have the Democrats to thank for it.

You remember "Bloody Gina" Haspel. She's already the CIA's acting director and has had just about every high-level job in the building. She's the godmother of the CIA's immoral, unethical and illegal George W. Bush-era torture program. She was the chief of a secret prison, where she oversaw the implementation of the torture program and was personally responsible for directing the torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the USS Cole bombing. Nashiri's attorneys say the torture of their client was so severe that he has lost his mind and can no longer participate in his own defense.

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French FM expresses 'firm disapproval' over Trump claims that Paris attacks could have been halted by armed citizens

AWR Hawkins
Breitbart
Sun, 06 May 2018 00:00 UTC

© Dominique Faget / Getty
Rescue workers evacuate an injured person near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris, on November 13, 2015. At least 39 people were killed in an 'unprecedented' series of bombings and shootings across Paris and at the Stade de France stadium on November 13.

When President Donald Trump spoke to the NRA convention on Friday, he suggested fewer people could have died in Paris on November 13, 2015, if Parisians had been allowed to be armed for self-defense.

The Daily Mail reports that French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian responded by expressing "firm disapproval" of Trump's suggestion that allowing people to be armed for self-defense would have made them safer.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Trump referenced the attack as proof that gun control does not control bad people. He said, "Paris, France, has the toughest gun laws in the world. Nobody has guns in Paris." He talked of how the gun-free status of patrons allowed the attackers to methodically kill at will. He said, "They took their time and gunned them down one by one."

SDF official: US sets up new base in Syria's Manbij region after Turkish threats

PressTV
Wed, 09 May 2018 19:13 UTC

An official from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militant group says US military forces established a new base in Syria's Kurdish-populated northern town of Manbij months after Turkish authorities threatened to attack the area in the fight against terrorists from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).

Sharfan Darwish, the spokesman for the so-called Manbij Military Council of the SDF, which is spearheaded by the YPG, said the new garrison also houses French troops.

"After the Turkish attack on Afrin and the increase in Turkish threats towards Manbij, coalition forces built the base to monitor and protect the border (between the combatants)," Darwish pointed out.

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Finnish government scraps basic income guarantee program

Hank Berrien
The Daily Wire
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC

For those who believe a guaranteed basic income is the answer to the world's economic woes: welcome to Finland.

Starting in January 2017, Finland experimented with giving a random sample of 2,000 unemployed people between the ages of 25 and 58 a monthly income of roughly $690; the recipients were not required to have a job; if they did take a job, they would receive the same amount.

The idea was to stimulate people to look for paid work by eradicating gaps in the welfare system; the Finnish government thought that with existing unemployment benefits so high, an unemployed person would eschew getting a job because they would risk losing money by doing so; the more money they made, the lower their social benefits would be. The basic income was meant as an incentive for people to start working.

Comment: The cancellation may be due to tax increases that would ensue. Investor's Business Daily comments:

It's comforting, we suppose, that Finnish social planners have no more common sense than those in the U.S. Neither group seems to understand the economic truism: What you subsidize you get more of, and what you tax you get less of.

In Finland's case, they were literally paying others not to work. Meanwhile, as working Finns figured out, such a system would lead to massive tax increases. Even the OECD, not known as a bastion of free-market thought, in a study of Finland found that a guaranteed income to replace welfare (the ultimate goal of all basic income programs) would have to be "financed by increasing income taxation by nearly 30% or around 4% of GDP."

So it should be no surprise why average Finns, some of the best educated people on the planet, would reject such an idea.

Chinese police investigating kindergarten teacher for forcing students to drink boiling water as punishment

RT
Wed, 09 May 2018 17:07 UTC

Chinese police are investigating after a kindergarten teacher was caught on tape allegedly forcing young students to drink cups of boiling water as a form punishment.

The shocking act of cruelty was discovered by a parent, Ms Li, whose son, Xiaoming, was unable to eat his dinner because he said his throat hurt. The mother took the child to the doctor where it was found that his throat was completely raw and swollen.

After questioning the young boy, Ms Li learned that the child's kindergarten teacher has forced him and several of his classmates to drink several cups of scalding hot water as a punishment for talking during lessons, Chinese news website The Paper reports.

The incident took place on the morning on April 26 in the city of Yangzhou in eastern China. The kindergarten's video monitor captured footage of the incident which was published by The Shanghaiist. It shows the small children gathered in a group as the teacher stands over them and doles out the punishment drinks.

Fed-up: "After 14 Years, I've Had It. I'm Leaving Seattle"

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 08 May 2018 16:45 UTC

Homelessness in Seattle

In a scathing op-ed published in the Seattle Times, Alex Berezow, a biomedical science fellow at the American Council on Science and Health, blasted Seattle's City Council for prioritizing virtue signaling over the plight of the city's most vulnerable residents and its increasingly strapped middle class.

When Berezow first moved to Seattle 14 years ago, homelessness didn't exist in the neighborhood of Northgate, where he continues to live.

But as home prices have skyrocketed - to the point where the median home value has reached nearly $900,000, placing homeownership in the city far beyond the reach of most American millennials - Berezow said homeless camps have begun appearing in the neighborhood. Many of these camps have no access to social services and are subjected to disease and abuse and as a result, crime has risen.

In short, Seattle has become a city that is hostile to the middle class.

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Society's Child

Citing high taxes and cost of living, more people are leaving New Jersey than almost any other state

Not a surprise: The mass exodus from Illinois continues

Greeks protest after 17% increase in refugee arrivals in April - once warm feelings turning sour as refugee crisis sees no end in sight

Tapped out? Colorado eviction courts overwhelmed amid unfolding housing crisis

Debate over appointing 'Bloody Gina' Haspel as CIA chief shows America's soul sickness

French FM expresses 'firm disapproval' over Trump claims that Paris attacks could have been halted by armed citizens

SDF official: US sets up new base in Syria's Manbij region after Turkish threats

Finnish government scraps basic income guarantee program

Chinese police investigating kindergarten teacher for forcing students to drink boiling water as punishment

Fed-up: "After 14 Years, I've Had It. I'm Leaving Seattle"

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